Sentences with phrase «american children experienced»

86 % of Haitian and 96 % of Central American children experienced such a separation.

USDA asserts that 20 % of families in America have «low food security,» but more quietly states that only 1 % of American children experienced actual hunger at any time during 2010 (the most recent year statistics are available).

20 - 30 % of American children experience night terrors.

Although the field continues to debate the relative merits of foster care for children, the fact remains that upwards of half a million American children experience this social service at any given time.

1 in 4 American children experience an ACE in the first 5 years of their life (CDC).

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The American Psychological Association notes that women who experience miscarriage are vulnerable to a whole host of other mental health issues such as postpartum depression, general anxiety / depression, and difficulty caring for existing children.

It has been my experience, though, that most American Catholics ignore the church's ban on birth control and usually have only about 2 - 3 children.

The Kauai children, like other Americans of their generation, were born just in time to experience the great demographic upheavals and the ambitious social programs of the 1960s.

I do not think now that the religious and ideological heritage that I was given as a child and as an adolescent was an entirely authentic version of the American tradition, but the subjective sense of continuity with the past is an indelible experience that undoubtedly colors even my present perceptions.

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He is triple board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in Adult, Child and Adolescent, and Forensic Psychiatry and has extensive experience in the public health arena.

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WASHINGTON — American schools are experiencing increasing numbers of food - borne illness outbreaks, but complex federal laws and bureaucratic turf battles hamper the government system designed to protect children from harm, a congressional watchdog agency reported Tuesday.

But, according to the American Psychological Association, one in seven women will experience the more severe symptoms of postpartum depression in the weeks and even months following their child's birth, and without help, postpartum depression won't go away on its own.

American schools are experiencing increasing numbers of food - borne illness outbreaks, but complex federal laws and bureaucratic turf battles hamper the government system designed to protect children from harm, a congressional watchdog agency reported Tuesday.

If an older child has received a degree of special treatment such as foster care or a especially assigned and paid for caretaker within the institutional setting, this may certainly facilitate a smoother transition to an American home but it is so very important that newly adoptive families understand that they are a very different experience to the older post-institutionalized child who may view them as objects of indiscriminant attachment or people who can be easily manipulated into giving all the things which they never had: food, clothing, toys, games, socialization and unconditional love in the absence of structure or consistency.

However, the American Academy of Pediatrics reminds parents that permitting your child to sleep with you increases the probability that she will experience problems falling asleep alone, and transitioning to her own bed may prove difficult.

«If camp has been a successful experience, the children realize, maybe for the first time, that they can make it away from their parents and gain a healthy feeling about living independently, knowing that they don't always need their parents to safeguard them from everything,» says Gordon Kaplan, associate director of the Illinois section of the American Camping Association.

African - American victims have approximately the same rates of victimization as Caucasian children, but are more likely to experience penetration as part of their victimization experience (Wyatt, 1985).

And there was a study that came out on 2010 that showed that one - third of American families experience diaper need, meaning, they have to cut back on basic necessities like food, utilities, and child - care, in order to buy diapers because diapers can cost up to 3000 dollars for each child over the time you are diapering.

The American Academy of Pediatrics, in their «Guide to Your Child's Nutrition,» advises that «Two rules apply across the board: Begin with stage 1 foods for beginners, and don't offer your child toddler foods, which often contain chunks, until he is an experienced eater.&rChild's Nutrition,» advises that «Two rules apply across the board: Begin with stage 1 foods for beginners, and don't offer your child toddler foods, which often contain chunks, until he is an experienced eater.&rchild toddler foods, which often contain chunks, until he is an experienced eater.»

However, as more parents like Lori and Theo Rivas speak out about their negative experiences with the advice contained in the books, «Babywise I» and «II» have also become the most controversial American child - care guides in 20 years or more.

This was somewhat of a mystery because it contradicted the experience of European - American children; overly strict and unresponsive white parents typically produce messed - up losers.

Every aspect of the American family is experiencing change, including the number of adults who marry, the number of households that are formed by married people, the number of children that are conceived, and the number of non-family households (Nock, 2005).

While I was unable to find any statistics on choking on school grounds per se, the American Academy of Pediatrics reported last year that «[c] hoking on food causes the death of approximately 1 child every 5 days in the United States,» and some of the characteristics of the typical school cafeteria eating experience were identified in the report as enhancing the risk of choking:

According to the American Library Association (ALA), «A child's early experiences with language contribute to healthy brain development and lay the foundation for learning to read when a child enters school.»

«Senator Schumer and Senate Democrats had the option to keep the government open and provide funding for at - risk children and our troops, but instead American families are experiencing a shutdown.

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A groundbreaking study from the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute has found that African - American students in first grade experience smaller gains in reading when they attend segregated schools — but the students» backgrounds likely are not the cause of the differences.

As the DEP's first Environmental Justice Administrator, she discovered that Newark's poor African - American and Hispanic preschool children experienced higher incidents of asthma than those in most other New Jersey urban centers.

Morse decided to make a case study of Crystal's experience, which he published in the American Journal of Diseases of Children.

The number of American children who experience undernutrition is unknown, according to the Academy and ASPEN.

Genetic susceptibility to bipolar disorder can increase the risk for suicide attempt, but only among those who also have experienced traumatic stress, reports a study published in the December 2017 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACAP).

A reflection of his own past and experiences, many of Mr. Mengestu's characters are immigrants or the children of immigrants, often from Africa, as he is; and so an underlying theme is what it means to be American.

Advances in genetic testing, as well as physicians better understanding of and experience with such tests in the last 20 years, prompted the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) to issue new guidelines on the issues surrounding genetic testing in children.

The rate of peanut allergies among U.S. children tripled between 1990 and 2006, and over half of today's Americans will experience an allergy to something during their lifetimes.

When one of the camp's guiding shrinks tells a room full of parents that their children are addicted to online games because «they can't experience satisfaction and heroism in real life,» the film can't help but invite comparison to the child - coddling excess of American culture, while capturing the opposite scenario in excruciating detail.

This is most certainly a film about loss — the loss of a solid American center, the personal losses of a husband and a child — but Didion describes everything she sees and experiences so attentively, so fully, and so bravely that she transforms the very worst of life into occasions for understanding.

From Oscar and Emmy winner Alan Ball, and starring Oscar and Golden Globe winner Tim Robbins and Oscar, Emmy and Golden Globe winner Holly Hunter, the show is a provocative and darkly comic meditation on the disparate forces polarizing present - day American culture, as experienced by the members of a progressive multi-ethnic family — a philosophy professor and his wife, their adopted children from Vietnam, Liberia and Colombia, and their sole biological child — and a contemporary Muslim family, headed by a psychiatrist who is treating one of their children.

Unlike the experience of past immigrants, for today's millions of Hispanic children the public schools no longer serve as the mechanism for their assimilation as Americans.

Many of the suburban, middle - class Chinese - American parents in her study had the means to buy their children academically enriching afterschool experiences — tutoring, test - preparation courses, or language classes — and to send them to high - performing, often private, schools.

Encouraging those voices is important, since «most educators — just like most Americans — don't have personal experience with the military,» says Mary Keller, the longtime leader of the Military Child Education Coalition, a prominent advocacy and resource center for teachers and parents, and one of the sponsors of the OEE campaign.

For the Central American children, almost half (47 %) experienced a separation from their mothers of 5 years or more.

They build schools, select textbooks, design curricula, recruit teachers, award diplomas, set rules for discipline, and oversee a vast array of operations, plans, and policies that shape the education experiences of most American children.

Administrators agree that children today are experiencing something unusual for an American classroom.

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Today, African - American and Latino children are overwhelmingly likely to have teachers who are less experienced or effective.

«More than any American educator of her generation, she possesses the practical experience to realize these reforms in Detroit for the benefit of our children,» asserted Lawrence C. Patrick Jr., president of the school board.